A guide to choosing and building a multi-play system
Multi-play playground units maximize available space with various activities spread across multiple levels, keeping many children active and engaged simultaneously. These units combine physical challenges with quieter educational games, catering to children of different ages and abilities, fostering interaction and inclusive play.
Our UniPlay Play System, designed for children aged 5 to 12, features a unique modular design, allowing you to adapt structures to fit your budget, space, and specific design needs.
In this guide, we will highlight customization options for our standard units, adaptations to suit different environments, and the possibility of building your own multi-play system from scratch.
Mix & match colors, materials and play functions on standard units
We have many wonderful standard units with lots of play value in various colors, materials and themes to suit any play area. When selecting from our off-the-shelf range, you can either keep the unit as it is or customize it to follow your design brief by changing certain features.
1. Choose one of our off-the-shelf standard configurations
Looking for ideas? A standard unit may be the perfect solution for you as our range comes in different materials, and covers a variety of needs and aesthetic requirements.
Our mulit-play structures come in different material combinatons.
2. Swap play components
Perhaps you’ve spotted a UniPlay design that would be perfect for your scheme, but you’d rather have a climbing net instead of a slide. An existing configuration can be adapted to your brief very easily by swapping play functions*; and with 50 components to choose from, you will be spoilt for choice.
*Our team of designers will work with you during the consultation stage to make sure that the new design meets current safety regulations.
3. Choose a custom color scheme and/or theme
Although our standard range already offers a variety of color and theme options, a lot of customers order bespoke color combinations or themes to meet very specific design briefs. We can manufacture posts, decks and roofs in any color from the RAL color chart* and can also create multi-play structures around a particular theme for a distinctive unit.
So, whether you need a neutral color palette, have a theme in mind or want contrasting hues for a striking playful look, we can make this possible.
*Subject to extra cost and lead time
4. Connect two standard multi-play units
This is the easiest and quickest way to create a bespoke unit as it requires little additional design work, perfect if you want to scale up whilst having to meet strict deadlines.
It also means that you can build your play structure in stages to match your budget schedule.
Build your own UniPlay system from scratch
Whether you want the play area to reflect local architecture, deal with specific constraints, or tell a unique story that captivates residents, you can create a bespoke structure that makes the community proud.
UniPlay’s modular system offers the flexibility to combine posts, panels, decks, roofs, and other components for unique designs. Experienced landscape architects or contractors can use our CAD blocks to achieve this, and our design team is available to help bring your vision to life, even if you have little to no technical background.
Steel or timber posts
Choose from bark brown engineered pine with galvanized steel footings, or choose powder coated/stainless steel posts for maximum durability.
Timber or HPL panels
Panels are available in brown, red or green in a slatted design whether you choose our original timber look, or the durable and bright HPL option.
Decks in timber & HPL
Complete the natural look with bark brown timber decks, in square or triangular shapes or select hard wearing HPL in black with a non-slip surface.
Which is best for you?
We can help you along every step of the way! Find our more about our materials.
Build vertically
High towers have that wow factor that will make them the focal point of any play area, thus immediately grabbing the attention of visitors.
UniPlay’s modular design makes it possible to add floors and build up towers as high as 10 meters.
Expand horizontally
The same principle applies to horizontal building. Plus, our triangular and square decks can be combined in multiple ways to create bespoke layouts.
The possibilities are endless!
Build on a slope
Far from being an obstacle, natural terrain can enhance the design of a UniPlay unit and contribute to a stimulating play experience.
With posts available in varying sizes and without pre-drilled holes, structures can be tailored to follow the landform, making the most of challenging sloping ground.
Children are naturally attracted to landscapes with varying levels, so this configuration adds extra play value to your scheme.
For slopes, our design team, experienced in creating thousands of safe and challenging structures on sloping surfaces, will recommend suitable play activities or ground floor modules.
Integrating natural features into your multi-play unit
Incorporating natural elements like trees, shrubs, rocks, and boulders creates a multi-sensory environment, fostering children's motor skills, imagination, and biodiversity. Natural spaces are essential for wellbeing and future preservation, making their integration into play areas highly valued by customers.
UniPlay's flexible design allows us to seamlessly include these features while adhering to safety and conservation standards, creating visually harmonious playgrounds even in tight spaces.
